On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 09:13:45AM +1000, julius wrote: > I have problems with updating debian stretch ....you people say that > ftp mirrors are not going to serve debian any more i am in australia .I > am not a good command line user only the basics and a lot of reading > from forums on problems to solve but still i get it done ....now you > refer to switch to something like this on your web page......
It is more appropriate to ask for this kind of help on a user support channel. There are several support methods listed on https://www.debian.org/support There is an example of what should be in a sources.list at https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Example_sources.list